The real meat and potatoes of crafting the 2017 budget begins tomorrow night with the presentation of the tax-supported operating budget. How well will staff handle the ying of lower taxes with the yang of government funding? Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the November 9 Meeting?”
Tonight at a special meeting of city council, the contentious topic of infrastructure levies will be discussed as well as potential alternative options. You can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here to read Politico’s preview of tonight’s meeting. For the complete blow-by-blow of tonight’s council meeting, you can follow me on Twitter, or follow along below via Storify. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for November 3, 2016”
It’s rare to get a Thursday night council meeting, but when you do, you better believe it’s about something contentious. This coming Thursday, council will get together to talk more about the capital budget for the coming year and ten years hence, but in the context of the controversial infrastructure levy that’s being proposed. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the November 3 Meeting?”
Tonight’s meeting will be mostly about Guelph Municipal Holdings Inc, and the responding to the Province’s review of Places to Grow. To follow all the action starting at 5 pm, you can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here to read Politico’s preview of tonight’s meeting. For the complete blow-by-blow of tonight’s council meeting, you can follow me on Twitter, or follow along below via Storify. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for October 24, 2016”
The annual budget process begins on Wednesday with a review of all the non-tax supported and capital budget projects. Here’s the preview of that first, special budget meeting of city council, plus, the meeting from the day before. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the October 25 and 26 Meeting?”
Before council dives wholeheartedly into the 2017 budget, October’s last city council meeting will cover provincial planning, federal money for transit and the always contentious subject of Guelph Municipal Holdings Inc. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the October 24 Meeting?”
Because of Thanksgiving Monday, your typical monthly planning meeting will be moved to Tuesday, and fittingly, there are a couple of leftovers for council’s consideration. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the October 11 Meeting?”
It was standing room only at city council last night as council debated a motion by Ward 2 Councillor James Gordon asking his fellow councillors on taking a stand against Nestle and their continued water taking at their Aberfoyle bottling plant. Now city council is often compared to a carnival, but there was no denying the carnival atmosphere prior to the meeting as hundreds of people gathered in front of City Hall to sing, speak and make noise, all to push council to support Gordon and his motion. Continue reading “VIDEOS: Hundreds Support Gordon Motion, Outside and In City Hall”
Tonight’s city council meeting will be proceeding by some additional action, and I don’t just mean the closed meeting that starts at 5 pm. Nope, also starting at 5 pm Rally to Protect Water, so stay tuned for updates from that as well. As for when the meeting starts, you can click here for the amended agenda from City Hall, and you can click here to read Politico’s preview of tonight’s meeting. For the complete blow-by-blow of tonight’s council meeting, you can follow me on Twitter, or follow along below via Storify. Continue reading “LIVE BLOG: City Council Meeting for September 26, 2016”
The normal politics of your end-of-the-month council meeting will be preceded this coming Monday by the Rally to Protect Water in front of City Hall, but there’s still a lot of non-water matters for council’s consideration and debate next week. Continue reading “City Council Preview – What’s on the Agenda for the September 26 Meeting?”
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